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 A technician looks at pig whipworm eggs through a microscope in the lab where they are produced and purified. (Photo courtesy of John Fleming, Detlev Goj)
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Biology

Why one man swallowed parasitic worm eggs

Hint: It offered a slight chance of rebooting his damaged immune system.  About ten years ago, ...

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Medicine
Mental Health

If ACA is repealed, it will be even harder to prioritize mental health care

When it comes to investing in our health, not all issues are treated equally. This idea seems all the more relevant as we await the fate ...

9 years ago

Houses on 86th Street in Eastwick overlook wetlands littered with a pile of old tires. (Emma Lee/for NewsWorks)
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We must mobilize now to protect rare and precious water supplies

President Trump is committed to eliminating the Waters of the U.S. Rule, which outlines federally protected waterways. Critics of the ...

9 years ago

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Behavioral Health
Home & Family
Mental Health

This is what depression feels like

I feel like the light at the end of the tunnel is a solitary candle about to blow out at any moment. At the same ...

9 years ago

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Gender
Mental Health
Race & Ethnicity

Women’s emotional labor on your behalf comes with a cost

I have opened my mind and my heart and given my time to others to unload their burdens on me despite my own turmoil and trauma, because I thought it was my duty as a woman.

9 years ago

Suzana Herculano-Houzel dissolved these bird brains into
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Biology
Medicine

One scientist is creating ‘brain soup’ to calculate brain power

Research suggests that bird brains are small but mighty, so don’t judge a brain by its size. Don’t judge a brain by it ...

9 years ago

Patricia Gallagher wraps a hand made blanket around the shoulders of a resident at the Open Arms of Nicetown Transitional and Emergency Housing for Vets. Gallager and other volunteers organized a ''Valentine's for Vets'' party and brought vast amounts of donated winter clothing for the men of the shelter. (Emily Cohen for WHYY)
Behavioral Health

Bringing warmth and love to Philly homeless veterans for Valentine’s Day

It’s Valentine’s Day, and you might be looking forward to getting flowers or a date tonight with your special someone at ...

9 years ago

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Rebecca, Jeremy, and their son, Noah. (Paige Pfleger/WHYY)
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Home & Family
Kids
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For this couple, starting a family turned into planning brain surgery

About four years ago, Jeremy Hoffman, who was 30 at the time, told his wife Rebecca about some weird symptoms he was having — he felt a ...

9 years ago

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The Hinrichs family, photographed almost a year after Kurt's stroke. (Courtesy of Kurt Hinrichs)
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Biology
Medicine
Technology

New procedure leads to miraculous recoveries in stroke patients

On July 17, 2014 Kurt Hinrichs, of Gladstone, Missouri, went to bed early. When his wife joined him, she woke him with her snoring. That ...

9 years ago

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 Dr. Priya Musunuri, a geriatric psychiatrist at Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, prepares to administer electroconvulsive therapy. (Elana Gordon/WHYY)
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History
Medicine
Mental Health

How electroconvulsive therapy’s troubled past has colored its modern use

Elyse Hunt hit rock bottom last summer. She had pummeled deeply into an already serious depression, leaving her bedridden and contemplati ...

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At the BrainVolts auditory neuroscience lab at Northwestern University a researcher places electrodes on a study participant’s head to capture the electrical impulses created when we hear a sound. (Courtesy of Nina Kraus Northwestern University)
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Biology
Medicine
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Listening to the brain to reveal damage and disease

Researchers are studying the way the brain processes sound to better understand – possibly even diagnose – concussions. < ...

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Audrey Butler attending services at Turnersville Assembly Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses. (Courtesy of Cheena Butler)
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Medicine
Religion

A Jehovah’s Witness balances surgery with beliefs

When Audrey Butler dedicated herself to becoming a Jehovah’s Witness seven years ago, she knew she would never accept a blood trans ...

9 years ago

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Aging
Mental Health

The secrets of “super-agers”

Researchers at Massachussetts General Hospital and other institutions are gaining a better understanding of & ...

Air Date: January 17, 2017

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Pills
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Mental Health

The Opioid Epidemic—from the headlines to hope

The news can sound dire. Opioid addiction is ruining families and taking lives at an ever increasing rate. In this roundtable discussion ...

Air Date: January 6, 2017

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How being a lawmaker turned me into a medical marijuana activist

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